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Public Programs

Current Exhibit:

April 15, 2008 - June 4, 2008

New Spain Era Manuscripts in Special Collections

Events and Lectures:

Environmental Perspectives Exhibition: Bibliography and Promotional Brochure

Environmental Perspectives: An Appreciation of Arid Lands Exhibit and Lecture Series

Ruben Martinez - January 17, 2008, 7:00 pm
Alison Deming -   February 7, 2008, 7:00 pm
Gary Nabhan -     March 5, 2008, 7:00 pm

Early Book Lectures all starting at 6:30 pm

February   5, 2008  -  Dr. Paul Richard Milliman (History Department)  “I'd Rather Be Hunting: Frederick II's De arte venandi cum avibus and the Art of Imperial Rule.  

February 12, 2008  -  Dr. Roger Dahood  (English Department) “The Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales.””

February 19, 2008  -  Dr. Albrecht Classen (German Department) “After the Discovery of the New World – The Discovery of History: Hartmann Schedel’s The Nuremberg Chronicle.

February 26, 2008  -  Dr. Kathleen Bradley (French/Italian Deptartment contact for Francophone) “Marguerite the Queen of Navarre: the Right to Write: L'heptaméron.

November 20, 2007,  7:00 pm
How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life, A discussion lead by Tom Miller

November 7, 2007  7:00 pm
A Conversation with W. David Laird:  The Future of Environmental Writing in the Southwest  


October 17, 2007,  6:30pm
Richard Shelton and Ken Lamberton: Reading and Book Signing, see podcast of lecture

 

Online Exhibits:

Bisbee Deportation of 1917

Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts in Special Collections

Fred Harvey Collection: Traveling the Rails in Grand Style

Jesse Addison Udall

Levi Stewart Udall

Little Cowpuncher

Miss Estelle Lutrell: an exhibit about UA Library History

Morris K. Udall: A Lifetime of Service to Arizona and the United States

Sophie Treadwell Collection

Southwestern Wonderland: Tourism Pamphlets from the 1920s and 1930s

Stewart Lee Udall: Advocate for the Planet Earth

 

USS Arizona: "That Terrible Day"

Other Online Resources:

The following web exhibits were created from Special Collections’ holdings, but are not maintained or updated by the University of Arizona Libraries. Accessing these sites will take you outside the Library’s web site.

The Leona G. and David A. Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives

E-company Marines Remembered

Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946